Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-27

ness, for l find IN Chilie Harold, canto iv,
stanza l, thes. lines:
tstood in Venice. on the Bridge Of Sighs,
palace and . prison on each hand
Judging from the appearance Of the prop
erty they are on hand yet, and his successor
will have considerable trouble in disposing Of
them.
Very naturally the real estate business WAS
dull in city where real estate conveyances
are made with a bucket or hose, and Byron
had time to write some poetry worth at least
$1,000 foot poetry and land, by the way,
are measured by feet, and what be said Of
Venice when he boarded there IL yet very
true in the main. 1his for instance:
A thousand years their cloudy wings expand
Around me. and . dying glory smiles
Oer the far times when many subject land
Looked to the winged Lions marble piles,
Where Venice sat in state, throncd on her 4 ID
dred isles.
expresses the situation approximately, and
il is a moral and physical imposibility q get
up early in the morning AMI have half the
days work done before breakfast, - ~e do
in cities with len history. Venice needs
hailing out mors than any city ever saw
To refer again to Byron He says. And
silent rows her songles gondolier." This ID
either . mistake or the old gondoliers have
struck and lot Of imported onss have taken
their places, for the Venstian gondolier is tho
very prettisst man and chssriest In Italy
He dresses usually in . white duck suit
duck, presume, because he b . water fowl,
jacket and bell buttoned Trousers, with .
bright scarf and flying tbboom Of hat.
and a. he gracefully balances himself on the
Aock ~ hl~,L ,l> H. A.-&
syllable), he is, beyond the Peradventure Of
doubt, the human idealization Of . white
winged dove roosting on . hearse Nor il be
silent, though he may b songless, for he
swears fortissimo In pure Italian at the fol-
low who CROSSES his course, and he tells you,
pianissimo, from out Of wreck OF English
Of this palace and Of that and finally in
veigles you into . ruined memory Of palace,
converted into an art store, and gets . COM
mission on all you buy.
They never sprinkle the streets In Venice.
The reason is ObviouA
st. Marks square is the largest piece Of dry
Land i'll town, and there in the evening are
congregated all the people wko can squeeze
into it. They sit around and walk around,
and put in their spare time listening to the
music and eating granite, rot the Belgisn
block o. monumental variety, but an ice
spelling its name that way and pronounced
"graEita' by the soft voiced ltaliana Gran
ite, by the way, is . plain ice seasoned with
lenon, and there are as many mors Of the
highly colored and highly priced varieties -
rne most sensational, emotional and extrava-
CANT could desire. Ices are the beer of
Venice. but when you have unseasoned, un-
trimmed, hard ice At your hotel you will find
it in your bill.
Notwithstanding the fact that Venice Is
always ahoat, the citizens have to bring their
drinking water about twenty five miles from
fhe country. Everything else almost comes
from the same direction, and marketing Il
high comparatively.
Bringing things from . distance reminds
me Of two facts worthy Of mention, namely:
The London Times, which sells in London at
three pence, l believe, il sold in Italy at ono
franc; at least that Is what the newsdealer
asked me for a copy. In New York Harpsrs
Monthly Is sold for thirty five cents. and in
London the price is twenty-five centa Now
what l want to know Is, il The Times in
creases in price At the rate Of SS3h per cent
for every 1000 miles east it goes, and Har-
psrs decreases 81 per cent. for every 5000
miles east it goes, how long will IT b until,
Or, rather, at what pcint will ono copy Of an
ordinary daily English nswspaper be worth
whole year Of Harperh, bound in morocco,
with gilt edgesl
Answers to this problem will Be- thankfully
received il accompanied BY stampa
OF course you have heard Of the "Lion Of
St. Narkx" Well, you ought to - it By
some calamitous inadvertence the poor brute
got its tail knocked OF, and art and human
ity demanded that IL have another, and an
other it has, but it doesn't ht, and you may
imagine, gentle reader, how the king Of
beasts must feel, away up on stone column
with . tail on him like . serial in New York
story paper
was greatly gratifed when the guide told
me they were going to take the lion down and
work him over.
l have seen some narrow streets In the
southern European cities, and thought there
couldn't he narrower ones, but one day in
Venice while it was raining land Venice d
very wet when it rains, started with nv
mp to 60 through canyon" lead
ing to the Rialto, and - am living woman
my umbrella stuck in the passage and bad
to shut it up or not get through. II nybody
disbelieves this have an af3davit on fils open
TO all comerA
Venice has numerous campaniles, or bell
towes, Of greater or les height, and as far
as could judge by the eye, not one If them
is perpendicular. One or two look - il they
would topple over At any time, and II an
earthquake should visit the place everything
would tumble TO it, % to speak. The fact,
however, that the tower in St Marks has
stood for an even thousand years Is some
assurance that . Venetian campanils has
come to stay, even il water il . poor founda-
ton for brick and stone.
think I referred above to the lion a. the
king Of beasts Indeed. am sure did, and
it is a reminder to me Of an incident A lady
at our hotel has husband in whom she II
very unfortunate. This is not an unusual
occurrence, I believe, but it Is not the less de-
plorable. Well, this husband lords it over
his wife in such way that wouldn't endure
for fifteen minutes. The other day the worm
turned when trod upon. They had . spat
and he asserted his authority.
"You will understand, madam said he,
that in matters between husband and wife.
the husband is supreme. You are the lamb,
meiam, and am the lion"
Il don't question that at ALL" she replied
with spirit, "for the lion is by common con-
sent known as the king Of beasts"
regret excee lingly to say that the woman
was sorry for this after she said it and begged
the mans forgiveness.
Some women make mo tired Just to think
about them
1t may lie sacrilege to say so, but think
st. Marks cathedral u the worst old rattle
trap Of building ever saw, that made any
pretensions ~ being anything. 1t b a. fancy
as . circus wagon, and looks ike one that
had tramped all summer and stood in the
weather without a shed over 1t for two or
three winters. The Doges palace, adjoining,
needs repairing badly, and am pleased to
state that the need is to some extent being
met